January 13, 2015.

It's around 5 p.m.

Zhu Su called her husband. She wanted to ask him if he would come back for dinner.

After Gou Shuhan answered the phone, he heard his wife just asking him if he would go home for dinner, and hung up the phone impatiently.

After hanging up the phone, he felt very sorry and was stunned for a few seconds, so he called back and apologized to his wife.

For a man with his personality, he would not directly say sorry when he apologizes.

"I have something to tell you."

He just hung up the phone impatiently, and now he called with such a serious tone, which made Zhu Su feel a little worried.

"Well, hubby, tell me."

"Go and see the training class tomorrow during the day. How much is the tuition for the kind of class where you can discipline disobedient people well?"

Gou Shuhan's tone was still so serious.

"Husband, the situation is so bad now. Besides, Xiaona is very good and doesn't need extracurricular training. Xiaoyi, Xiaosu and the others are still in preschool——"

"No, not them."

"That is--"

"It's me. Ask the training class if they accept disobedient people like my husband."

Gou Shuhan's voice softened only then, with a hint of playfulness. He was apologizing to his wife in a different way.

Zhu Su was amused by him, and then became sad again.

"Honey, your health is the most important thing. It doesn't matter if you don't come back for dinner. Remember to eat on time. I'll order you some fast food. Remember to eat when you get there. We haven't done a good job in business. The worst is not to do it. You can make more money. Three babies.

I'm waiting for you to come home."

Zhu Su wasn't sure if he would hang up the phone because he said it for so long.

He has been under too much pressure recently, but there is nothing he can do to help him.

"Well, tell them that dad will go home early today."

As a result, after hanging up the phone, I was busy until late at night without realizing it.

Even the takeaway food is stuffed into the stomach like a gulp.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, he sent a video chat to his wife and children, and Gou's mother also urged him to go back early. He patiently explained that he couldn't get off work early and had to be busy with other things.

What are you busy with?

Make phone calls to urge customers to pay dues.

Call the supplier to explain why the payment is late.

Look at the income and expenditure accounts of Dongyin and Dongrun.

The more I looked at it, the more I felt that what was in my head was not a brain, but a ball of wool.

Hold a meeting for Wen Kai and Su Yan to analyze the next situation.

Hold a meeting for Dongrun employees to encourage everyone to brainstorm and seek new business directions.

Hold a meeting for the workers in Dongyin and tell them that no matter what, their wages will be paid as always.

But the day after tomorrow, January 15th was the pay day, and the two company accounts could not even collect the salaries of more than 40 people.

At around 9 o'clock, more than ten Dongrun employees started getting off work.

At 10:30, workers in Dongyin get off work. In the past, this time would have been the time to get on the plane for the evening shift, but now that the business volume has declined, there is no need to work overtime all night.

Around 12 o'clock, Wen Kai and Su Yan came to say hello to him.

"Brother Han, go back early."

"Well, you two should go back and create humans as soon as possible. You are so young. It is against ethics not to create humans."

Su Yan had long been accustomed to Gou Shuhan's habit of making dirty jokes even though he was serious.

However, she knew that Gou Shuhan only joked when Wen Kai was around.

After Wen Kai and his wife left, he and the night shift security guard were the only ones left in the factory.

Time passes minute by minute, and the city that never sleeps is not in vain.

The machines in other factories were roaring, and there were many people on the road outside.

He leaned on the sofa chair and looked out the window at the short, old factory building opposite.

The sky over the factory building was illuminated by lights as bright as day, but there were no stars in the sky, instead it gradually faded from gray to pitch black.

In the past six months or so, I don’t know how many times I have stayed alone in the factory late at night.

Looking away from the window, he lit up a cigarette and started smoking.

Then he didn't stop, he smoked one stick after another.

Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health, but sometimes, human beings are so strange that they would rather harm their health than harm their own mood.

In the ashtray in front of me, cigarette butts slowly stood up into a small forest.

The office was filled with smoke, and the air conditioner was vigorously ventilating, but it was too late to suck away the smoke he exhaled.

He was the only one in the whole factory.

From the time I celebrated my 31st birthday in 2013 to now, a year and a half has been like a cigarette in my hand, burning my youth and never getting back.

In the past year and a half, too many things have happened. He used to have a beer belly, but now he has lost a lot of weight.

The unique Xiangxi temperament coupled with the thick beard, coupled with the fact that he had not rested for a long time and had two dark circles on his face, gave him an evil feeling.

The clock on the wall of the office read three minutes past one in the morning.

Hot weather.

Two packs of cigarettes are like playing a relay race, they have been smoked by themselves.

When it was time to go back, he stood up and picked up his car keys.

It’s still that Audi A6.

But it's not the same mood as before.

I went down the stairs and came to my car.

I opened the car door but haven't sat in yet.

The phone rang.

At this late hour, the only one who cares about me is my wife.

He must be urging himself to go home quickly.

He put on his Bluetooth headset, got into the driver's seat, and pressed the speakerphone button.

"Honey, I'll go home right away!"

"I just said it makes sense for Mr. Gou to live a comfortable life. He is still thinking about his wife so late. It's me, R&F Lao Zhang..."

Gou Shuhan picked up his phone and looked at the company customer Zhang Guoqiang.

"Oh, Mr. Zhang, I'm so sorry. I just hung up the phone from my wife to urge me to go back. I thought she was here to urge me again."

"Haha, you come home late every day. You can't hang out all the time. You also have to hand in homework for the family."

Gou Shuhan frowned.

This Zhang Guoqiang has not placed many orders with him all year round, and the contract amount is not large. Every time we meet, he treats himself to a meal. If he calls so late, is it possible that he wants to have a late-night snack today?

"Mr. Zhang, you're right. My wife has lost her temper. I don't care whether she works overtime or not. I have to go back to work. What a pain for a middle-aged man!"

"Mr. Gou is so funny. I'm almost fifty and I don't accept old age. You are only in your early thirties. It's the right age to sharpen your guns and sharpen your swords to kill the enemy. You are not old anymore."

"Yes, yes, Mr. Zhang is right. Well, I have to call my wife here, so I can't chat with you. I have to go back early -"

Gou Shuhan wanted to hang up the phone early. Firstly, Zhang Guoqiang was not happy every time he called. For business cooperation, he always arranged for his stingy brother-in-law to contact him. Secondly, this guy was always dishonest, and Gou Shuhan didn't want to talk to him about these things.

"Hey, you have to do something before you go back."

Gou Shuhan has doubts in his heart. Is there any business?

He didn't answer, waiting for Zhang Guoqiang to continue.

With his current experience, he no longer says unnecessary words most of the time.

"I'm eating here on Bagua Road. There's a beautiful little fellow like you. She's almost drunk. Come and take her away. Otherwise, her body will be picked up by some of my partners later, and there will be a fuss.

It would be bad if she wasn't happy. I know she knows you, otherwise, I would turn a blind eye and just ignore her."

Gou Shuhan frowned again.

What beautiful fellow countryman?

Still know me?
To be continued...